Knockdown easel



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KNOCKDOWN EASEL. APPLICATION FILED DECJO. I921.

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KNOCKDO'WN EASEL.

Application filed December 10, 1921. Serial No. 521,464.

To all 4.0 10m it may concern Be it known that-I, DAVID LEVIGTON, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the countyof New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in a Knockdown Easel, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates more particularly to a class of display cardsandthe like.

My invention has for its object primarily to provide an easel designedto be employed for detachably supporting various articles of merchandisein a manner whereby the goods may be conspicuously displayed for sale oncounters, showcases and elsewhere, and which is adapted to be providedin knockdown form for occupying limited'space when not in use. Theinvention resides mainly in the provision of two separate sur-' faceelements which may be of card board or other bendable material, and thecentral parts of both elements are correspondingly slotted from oppositeportions of their edges toward their centers so that the unslotted partof one element may be removably fitted in the slot of the other elementfor disposing the elements in cruciform fashion to provide radiallydisposed leaf members. In each leaf member may be slits of forms toprovide supporting members adapted to be bent in outward angulardirections so that articles of merchandise may be detachably fastened onthe leaf member for being displayed for sale, and means may also beprovided for releasably holding the interfitted parts of the elements incrosswise arrangement.

A further object of the invention is to provide a knockdown easel of asimple and efficient construction which may be made in any appropriateshape and size.

With these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinaftermore particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawingforming apart of this specification in which similar characters ofreference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and will thenbe pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a plan of one of the surface elements orboards employed in my improved knockdown easel.

Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 2-2 of Fig; 3, and

Fig.3 is a perspective view of the easel.

The. easel has two corresponding surface elements or boards 10 and 11which may be made in suitable shapes and sizes of card board or otherappropriate bendable material, though the form of each of the elenientsshown is substantially rectangular. Extending from the central part ofone of the edges of the board element 10 is a slit or slot, as 12, whichterminates approximately in the center of the element, and extendingfrom the central part of the opposite edge of the board element 11 is asimilar slit or slot which also terminates in the center of the elementll. Each of the slits 12 has a portion, as 14, and this'portion of eachelement is of a width so that the other element maybe freelyaccommodated therein.

When the easel is assembled the board elements 10 and 11 are disposedcrosswise of each other, and the unslitted part of each element isremovably fitted in the slit. of the other element so that both elementsare in cruciform or X-shaped arrangement for being positioned endwise,as shown in Fig. 3, on a counter, showcase and elsewhere. This manner ofassembling the elements provides radially disposed leaf members 15, 15and 16, 16*, and to permit articles of merchandise to be detachablymounted on the easel so as to be displayed for sale, in each of the leafmembers may be one or a number of similar spaced slits, as 17, 17, 17"Each of the slits 17, 17 17 may be of forms somewhat of the shape of aninverted U so that the parts of the leaf members within the U- shapedslits provide supporting members or fingers 18, 18, 18" which may bebent angularly outward. if desired to allow articles of merchandise tobe fastened thereto by any suitable means.

hen the board elements 10 and 11 are in cruciform arrangement, asexplained, they may be releasably held against accidentally collapsingby providing at the edge of each board element opposite to its slit 12 aslot, as 19, which is on alinement with the slit 12 The part of the slit12 of each of the board elements 10 and 11 between the wide portion 14and the edge of the element is formed in somewhat the shape of a Z, asat 20, to

provide two adjacent tongues, as 21 and 22, both of which are preferablyof substantially triangular shapes. The tongues 21. and 22 of each ofthe board elements are of combined sizes so that they may be freelyaccommodated in the slot 19 of'the other board element, and followingthe 'interfitting of the board elements in crosswise fashion the tonguesof each element are removably inserted in the slot 19 of the otherelement so that the tongueswill span in overlapping arrangement with twoof the tongues being disposed upon each face of the elements. The boardelements will then be releasably held in cruciform fashion for effectualdisplay of the goods carried thereon, and by detachably connecting theboard elements in this manner they may be packed in knocked down formsin compact parcels for being readily assembled When wanted for use.

In the foregoing description, I have embodied the preferred form of myinvention, but I do not Wish to'be understood as limiting myselfthereto, as I am aware that modifications may be made therein Withoutdeparting from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages ofthis invention, therefore, I reserve to myself the right to make suchchanges as fairly fall With the scope thereof. r

Having thusdescribed my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letter Patent s 1 1. A knock down easel, comprising two separatesubstantially rectangular bendable board elements and the elementshaving slits extending from opposite edges to- Ward their centers sothat the unslitted also having a slot intermediate its ends, and tonguesoneach element adapted to be removably inserted in the last mentionedslot of-the other element for releasably holding the elements \incrosswise position.

2. A knockdown easel, comprising two separate substantially rectangularbendable board elements and the elements having slits extending fromopposite edges toward their centers so that the 'unslitt-ed parts of oneelement may be 'removably fitted in the slit of the other element forarranging the ele ments in cruciform fashion the unslitted part ofeachboard element also having a slot in spaced alinement to its slit, andbendable tongues on each element adapted to be removably insertedthrough the last mentioned slot'of the other element as well as beingdisposed in spanning overlapping arrangement'on the second element forreleasably holding the elements in crosswise arrangement. r

This specification signed and witnessed this 9th day of December, A. 111921. DAVID LEVIGTON.

Witnesses:

A. LEICHTER, I J. FREDERICK CRYER.

